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Originally Posted by justjim
According to a recent report (2013) only seven (7) States required background checks at gun shows. However, we can quote and "spin" statistics all we want to make a point but perhaps we can all agree that there is way too much gun violence in the U.S.
In 2013 there were 33,169 deaths related to guns. In addition, there were just north of 84,000 injuries. I would think any reasonable person would say that is not okay.
Like I said, you can spin it anyway you want but the fact remains that this is the facts. You see---the first thing in solving a problem ----you have to recognize you have a problem to start with. We can't even do that!
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Half of the gun deaths in America are suicides, which means if they didn't have a gun then it would be razor, pills, bridge, etc.
Maryland has one of the strictest gun laws in America and has one of the highest gun related death rates. Laws are not the answer.
Out of 218 countries USA is
not even in the top 100 countries for murders by population ratio. And the USA has the highest gun ownership in the world.
Murder is not a gun problem. Murder is a world problem, not specific to the USA. Guns are a convenient tool of murder/suicide but not necessary to achieve the goal of death. As a matter of fact, the Americas has the lowest murder conviction rate in the world, with less than 25%. We have a problem, but it's not guns. America has a mental health problem that is not isolated to just the USA.
You are not going to eliminate murder any more than you can eliminate air pollution. You can do a few things to act as a band aid, but you will never eliminate it. You have seen how much gun control does as far as stopping murder. Cities with the strictest gun control have the highest murder rates.